For generations, the key to playing great team defense in the NBA was defending the rim. Now, because of the league's obsession with the three-point shot, the real action is some 23 feet from the basket.

Major League Baseball is considering playing future spring exhibition games on the island nation and baseball hotbed that used to routinely host American teams in the days before Fidel Castro came to power.

Cycling’s world governing body recommended that Astana Pro Team, which boasts 2014 Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali, has its World Tour license revoked for the 2015 season because of three positive doping tests last year.

Soccer: After any big victory in the Champions League, teams are always thrilled to parade their manager and players before the media. But how many clubs can also send out a reigning monarch, asks Joshua Robinson.

The Count

Power-play opportunities have reached their lowest level since at least the 1968-69 season, according to Stats LLC. Much of the decline can be attributed to fewer players going to the box for the game’s more violent infractions.

Books

If you ran a college and knew there was substantial money to be had from sports but no requirement to educate athletes, you might cut corners—that’s exactly what the University of North Carolina did for nearly two decades.

In Depth

After winning, then losing, his world No. 1 rank, Novak Djokovic is back on top and as determined as ever. But now that he’s a father, there’s more to life than racking up trophies.

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World ranking of golfer Padraig Harrington heading into this past weekend’s Honda Classic and the ranking for James Hahn before the Northern Trust Open, played the previous week. Harrington won in a playoff on Monday, a week after Hahn won. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking)

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